hey dad, not a bad week this week. pretty much all the baptism that were closest have fallen and wont happen until after i leave, unless a miracle happens this week we still have one potencial who could be baptized this saterday. If you remember the guy with the tumor on his neck, he finally went today to san pedro to get it removed. literally every time weve visited him he s said . it hurts so bad, im going tomorow to get it removed. until yesterday, what we had heard is that it was a fatal tumor and that they werent going to operate it. but aprently it was just gossip and it makes me very happy. hopefully he will be able to regain some memory now and feel better, its been so sad to visit him and see him in pain. hes lives just a perfect life and is a great example. a very kind and selfless man. so its great that he will be feeling a lot better soon!
other than that im expecting transfers next week, ill find out next sunday night where im going. this week ill pretty much just be saying bye o people and wrapping up some ends here. i have a dentist appointment on wednesday, i had it for today but the doctr had an emergency in another city. i told mom about that. it will cost somewhere between 50 to 80 dollars from what i know. its 10for the consultation fee, and 20 for each cavity, and then i dont know if they might do some other stuff that will also cost. hopefully it works out, not looking forward to it too much. love you dad im glad things are going well for your work. im glad you told me not to tell anyone about dallins marriage plans, because i probably would have otherwise haha. thats pretty exciting! love you!
August 14:
hey dad! yeah 11 months and now in 2 weeks, on the 31st, will be my one year from return date! with the way the transfers are i should e returning august 31 2018! it seems very far away but the time has gone fast. i have defintily seen my progress as ive been looking back. i do want to be home, but i know i will miss out on experinces and just the molding that the lord has for me. its been very cool to look back and see where i am now. and looking forward to what i can become! i do have transfers to La Ceiba in the area Lempira. ill be in the same distrcit as my favorite old comp so that will be fun. I will also be the sr companion, kinda nervous but it will be good learning experience.Anyways things have been going good here, got to finsih packing up my bags. it will be very intersting to see how i will fit all my things in my bags. love you dad!
hey mom! busy week but lots of good things. i have transfers to a city about 2 hours away called la ceiba. i will be the sr companion. kind of nervous but it will be nice to be able to do things the way i want to. thats sop funny what that guy said to dallin! thyats cool to see hes making the move. oooooooo so i went to the dentist..... bad news . turns out i have 8 cavities. now 6 since he only had time to fix 2. i guess a year of coke and fried things has been pretty bad to my teeth. hopefully i can get the rest done in Ceiba. its pronounced sayba in case you were wondering. but yeah that was some bad news to hear and my teeth still hurt. he had to go pretty deep on one of them. well i will be buying some flouride mouthwash and start using that as well to help my teeth but i miss us dental care haha. ill write a general email becasue it was very intresting week this week. love you!
From: Joshua Brian Gardner <gardner.joshua@myldsmail.net>
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 1:48 PM
To: Nicole Gardner
Subject: Re: Wow! Job interview and test
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 1:48 PM
To: Nicole Gardner
Subject: Re: Wow! Job interview and test
haha i never buy it, just we always get offered it for dinners and visits and stuff. i dont like it that much but cant turn it down haha! they have banana soda here that i really like, and also coconut soda! its so good. but no i dont buy soda alot
On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 2:45 PM, Nicole Gardner <wesandnicole@hotmail.com> wrote:
HI my boy!
So lol I would have to say you've learned why Coke is bad for you and will stop drinking it now right? That stuff eats away grease on car engines, definitely eats teeth. 😊
Love you!Mom
To Everyone August 14 A Week of Strange Occurances
well things have been very busy here as usual. after 6 months in this area i will be having transfers to a city about 2 hours away... LA Ceiba! my new area is called Lempira. New companion is a gring se llama Elder Gessell. He has about 4 months less time then me so it will interesting to see how things play out.
But today im gonna start off with something super funny that happened to us 2 weeks ago. So we were about 30 minutes from our house, and we just decided to take a break for a little at the gas station that was close by. my companion had to use the bathroom so i was just kind of waiting around for him looking for some snacks. i hear the water running and i know ok hes almost done. he comes rushing oput and asks the lady at the coubnter for the water key. She didnt really know what he was talking about, and asked one of the other employees to take a look. he takes one look inside and starts freaking out! turns out my comp went to flush the urinal, it didnt work, so he pressed it again, and the whole thing fell off the wall and the water started to flood the gas station. he flooded probably half the store. it was so funny! the manager came out and was like who did this? kind of angry like, but we were just over by the register buying some stuff and just kind of raised our hands. then we went and calmy ate our snacks outside.it was so funny! good old honduran pipe engineering at its finest.
moving on to this week...
so we were pretty far away with a less active and an investigator that we just set a date for the 26.(yes!) they are super cool, she works for avon and has like 95 poeple who sell avon under her. but anyways the bus for that area only passes once every hour. it had just passed by going the other way when we finished, so we started off on what would have been about an hour and a half walk to our next appt. we hear this bus coming, and were like thats kind of weird, its not time for the bus yet. We turn around and its this big blue bus that says baptist dental brigade!. my comp sticks his thumb out and the bus slows down enough for us to jump on. so we get on, and its a bunch of gringos just looking at us like what are you doing on our bus? Also very funny! were justlike hey were just gonna catch a ride for a littel and then we started talking with them. We sat down next to the pastor of their church we we told him that were mormons he just kind of stopped talking. but we kept the convo going anyways. they had been up in the mountains doing some work up there for part of a 2 week mission. we told them our missions our 2 years and their mouths just dropped! it was awesome. the bus was actually headed about a block from where we were going so we rode it all the way there. then when we were about to get off, we prayed with them! it wqas so cool.
another thing that happened this wek... we were doing a mormon helping hands service at lancetilla botanical jarden. which for those that didnt know is the second biggest botanical jarden in the world. so we wehre there servicing when a missionary who finished hios mission last transfer and his family randomly found us! it was super cool. anyways lots of other cool stuff happened this week but dont hAve time to explain all, hope yall doing well, enjoiyng life and whatnot
sigue fiels.
Love
elder gardner
August 21:
Hey dad, thats awesome with your work. and with dallin also haha! Good idea with the water, i will try it. today i spent some money and bought some sensydyne toothpaste and some mouthwash. my new area is pretty cool. its basically just a lot of steep hills but its fun. Turns out my comp is kind of used to taking the initiative on things, but im working on taking on the responsibility. this ward is pretty big and actually seems to function like a ward in the states. we had ward consel sunday morning and it was pretty scary, but this ward definitely gets things done. the bishop has been in the hospital the past month but even so the ward is doing great. we have an awesome mission leader here also.its going pretty good though. love you dad! good luck with things this week.
hey mom! its been a good week. a long week but a good one. my area is pretty cool. its basically lots of very steep hills . the beach isnt in my area but i dont think its too far. were also surrounded by big mountains that are in the clouds half the time. there was supposed to be some big storm today and yesterday but nothing has happened yet so well see. this area is pretty civilized, its a pretty big city that im in here. I went to wal,art today! it was the biggest store that ive been inside of in honduras. it was nice to actually have a selection haha. so my companions so far... elder hafoka in the mtc, then e. guadarrama, e vera, in ocotillo, then in tela i had elder baede and elder sanchez. here so far i have elder gessel . hes from california and a super chill guy. we get along good but i need to take more responsibilty for things. im working on it. this ward here is huge and its a big adjusment here from being one of the main supports in a branch to being just like normal missionaries as it would be in the states. its kinda scary because the leaders are on top of us pretty good but also good because they want to work with us. ward consel felt like we were thrown in a shark tank haha. but its ok.sounds like a lot of things as always from home i hope everything works out. i am a little sad to miss his wedding but ill be home before too long. thats so funnny about grandpa! as long as the neighbors arent complaining let him build away haha. in tela, no that family has not bveen married yet . the mother in law wouldnt let her leave the baby or travel with it so its at a standstill now. but one of the other invetigators i was working with finally accepted a baptism date! i was able to watch her change her life in the 6 months we were visiting and its great to finally have her baptized. her name is yadelin, shes the daughter of my convert Jose! here we have 2 baptisms this week, from an recently reactivated family. the work here is a litttle tougher but well see what this area has in store for me. love you mom. oh and we have a mouse in our house. today i bopught a ton of cleaning supplies and some mouse glue traps so i hope we can cath it. it ate some of my food and i was very upset!
only have 1 pic today, the clouds were covering the mountains in the background. im not going to carry around my camera here because its a little more dangerous in some places. but supposedly they know that were missionaries and what we do. i dont think ill have any problems though and im always on my gaurd. love you mom!
August 28:
hey dad. good week. its been a very long week haha. thats funny about the neighbors, thats how it is with just about everyone we teach. were working with 2 couples right now to hopefully get them baptized by the end of september. marriage is very complicated here. this area is a little more dangerous than my others, but im doing what i can to stay as safe as possible. the water goes out a lot here so we keep extra in a garbage bin in the shower. its been very busy but good. we had a 2 baptisms yesterday, also 1 lady from my old area was baptized yesterday, with 2 more coming this week. even though i wont be there for there baptisms it was amazing to teach them and watch them turn their lives around. love you dad hope things stay good for you!
turns out we dont have a mouse, we have a squirrrel thats been coming in our house. today i bought some rat glue traps, since it was able to pull itself off the mouse glue traps. if these dont work im just going to buy poison next week, its super gross having this thing visiting our house.love you mom! today i withdrew 100, just so you know it was me.
one thing if you could buy for me and put it in nthe next box, a book called day of defense. basically its a book where 2 missionaries get togethr and prove against like 20 other ministers the truth of our religion in a courtroom. i started reading it with my other comp but didnt have time. it has lots of good scriptures to help with different things people might approach us about
anyways love you mom! i hope dallin has a good birthday, i s ent him a email. love you mom have a great week!
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